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"Vaughan Sanders" <vjs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "Alan Crozier" <name1.name2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> > "mof" <moflkb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> >> Hej Inger!
> >>
> >> Please read the following articles.
> >>
> >> http://tinyurl.com/hhx7w
> >>
> >> A card can make it from Connecticut to Ireland.
> >>
> >> http://tinyurl.com/imm4
> >>
> >> This Oceanographer Ebbesmeyer thought it possible that the rubber
> > ducks
> >> could end up in Ireland.
> >>
> >> http://www.agu.org/sci_soc/ducks.html
> >>
> >> I will have to quote some text from the last article.
> >>
> >> "three drift casks containing messages released near Point Barrow in
> >> 1899 and 1900 were recovered 6-8 years later on the northern coasts of
> >> Norway and Iceland and the southwest coast of Greenland; several
> >> bottles released in the vicinity of Nome, Alaska, were found
> >> approximately 10 years later in Iceland, Ireland, and Norway; and a
> >> drift bottle, released June 26, 1979, in the Bering Strait was found
> > in
> >> western Scotland 7 years later on July 6, 1986."
> >>
> >> Simply put; stuff can drift from Alaska to Ireland.
> >>
> >> http://waynesword.palomar.edu/pldec398.htm
> >>
> >> In this article about drift seeds and fruits, we read about bottles
> >> making it from Yucatan to Ireland.
> >>
> >> The conclusion is that they could have reached Ireland from almost
> >> anywhere. Therefore it is impossible to exclude any area.
> >>
> >> mvh from a Mof that just has to post, now that there isn't even a
> > rerun
> >> of any WC match to watch :(
> >>
> > (Skulle du vilja se Sverige mot Tyskland en gång till?)
> >
> >
> > Here's advice on how to sail from the north-east United States to
> > Ireland:
> >
http://www.sailnet.com/collections/articles/index.cfm?articleid=carrmi008
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> > And here's the story of a man who wanted to row from Massachusetts to
> > Portugal but ended up in Ireland:
> > http://www.oceanrowing.com/logs/Nenad_Belic.htm
> >
> > Alan
> >
> >
>
> "North Atlantic Weather
>
> Weather systems across the North Atlantic are influenced by the
interaction
> of the northern edge of the Bermuda-Azores high pressure system and
> semi-permanent area of low pressure sitting near 60N"
>
> I think the circumpolar vortex was farther north during the MWP, this
meant
> you would get moderate westerly prevailing winds during the summer.
A bit farther north, but not much. The Labrador current has had almost same
and the Gulfstream have had close to the same 'direction' for the last 1000
years. The only difference notable were for the western and the eastern
Greenland current. which easily can explain why the ship from Markland in
1347 ended up the fjord it did.
The observation 'during summer' is on the other hand correct, but not as
late as the ships in question got winddriven.
>
> (Whyte, Climate hange pp. 22-23)
>
> Jamie
Inger E
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